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#470 – Just Add Salt
- Holidays coming up!
- Chris is planning on making a reference design when things are slow
- Chris just bought a HP 8753D
- Neither Dave nor Chris has paid 4 digits for test gear recently
- Shahriar regularly buys and repairs high cost gear.
- Some VNA cal kits go for $1800
- Dave just got some transfer standard capacitors. They’re 60 years old and still cost $50-$100 each.
- Test gear anonymous thread on EEVblog forum
- Chris joined a mailing list about fixing up HP/Agilent/Keysight gear
- Mailing list australia
- Dave tracks forums just by leaving tabs open
- Discord/Slack/Discourse are all kind of a mess for tracking what’s going on.
- Teddy running the BranchEducation about how do PCBs work
- He’s got the knack
- 747 simulator videos
- STM32 tool install video
- Jason Kridner & Robert Nelson episode
- Writing firmware
- “I’m a thrasher”
- Konrad Beckmann’s advice on Twitter
- The new “AI” solution for getting PCBs designed…
- Dave is doing (actually already posted) a textbook review
- The X Chapters of Art of Electronics – Expanded chapters
- “The whole blinkin lot”
- Floyd, Malveno, Smith
- Dave is a “Floyd man”
- Former guest Jeremy Blum just released the second edition of Exploring Arduino
- Favorite episodes
- Chuck Peddle
- Tom Lee
- Jeri Ellsworth
- Dave and Shahriar (5G)
Thanks to onefox for the image of salt